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chloedecanson.bsky.social Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social · 3d
Many Long COVID trials have reported negative results in 2024 and 2025. In our Comment for @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social we argue that inadequate outcome measures might have played a role. (1/12)
THE LANCET Infectious Diseases COMMENT • Online first, November 07, 2025 Negative results in long COVID clinical trials: choosing outcome measures for a heterogeneous disease Lara Goxhaj • Lisa McCorkell • Femke van Rhijn-Brouwer . Letícia Soares . Julia Moore Vogel . Chloé de Canson
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
wesbonifay.bsky.social
Lakatos: “In a progressive research programme, theory leads to the discovery of hitherto unknown novel facts.” #philsci
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
luciacneco.bsky.social
Have you registered for #AAHPSSS2025 yet? The conference will be held in hybrid format at the University of Queensland, 3–5 December 2025. It’s a small community, which makes it a great opportunity for really good feedback and collaboration.
#HPS #philsky #philsci
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2025 Conference
2025 AAHPSSS Conference The 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Universit…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
steveesser.bsky.social
Enjoyed this paper. Hard to see how one can do philosophy of mind or cognitive science while remaining innocent of biology. #philsci #philsky
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
roto-rub.bsky.social
Next Monday, we'll have our first reading group session in this semester. We'll discuss "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wanna join the discussion at 4pm CET? Just write an e-mail to jan.baedke[at]rub.de!
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Screenshot of the title and abstract of "The epistemic superiority of experiment to simulation" by Sherrilyn Roush
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
theramseylab.bsky.social
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
Screenshot of the first page of a Philosophy of Science journal article titled “Tool Use Beyond Humans” by Gianmaria Dani and Grant Ramsey, published by the Philosophy of Science Association. The authors are affiliated with the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at KU Leuven, Belgium. Abstract: The definition of tool use has long been debated, especially when applied beyond humans. Recent work argues that the phenomena included within tool use are so broad and varied that there is little hope of using the category for scientific generalizations, explanations, and predictions about the evolution, ecology, and psychology of tool users. One response to this argument has been the development of tooling as a replacement for tool use. In this article, we analyze the tool use and tooling frameworks. Identifying advantages and limitations in each, we offer a synthetic approach that suggests promising avenues for future research.
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Elliott, Kevin (2025) Arguments against the Value-Free Ideal. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27172/
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Elliott, Kevin and Richards, Ted (2025) An Introduction to Values and Science. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27173/
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

Seifert, Vanessa A. (2024) The many laws in the periodic table. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27178/
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
philsci-archive.bsky.social
New on the Archive:

De Haro, Sebastian (2025) The Geometric View of Theories. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27183/
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu: Arguments against the Value-Free Ideal




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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu: An Introduction to Values and Science




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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu: The many laws in the periodic table




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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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philsci-archive.pitt.edu: The Geometric View of Theories




https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/cgi/export/eprint/27183/Atom/pittphilsci-eprint-27183.xml
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
impractknow.bsky.social
Nah, I was trying hard to catch the whole philsci literature on authorship in the original paper, so it's annoying when I find something I missed!
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
pepperqi.bsky.social
#philsci #philsky #animal #sentience

mwhile Barney the Giant wrasse is musing
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I wonder if that's my cousin?
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November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
smithborrelli.bsky.social
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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · Jul 19
What is fascism, then?
If I had to define it, I’d say it’s a disease of the soul.
When I use the word “fascism,” I refer to all those authoritarian drifts into ...

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Fascism as a Disease of the Soul
In recent years, there has been much talk about fascism.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
hkandersen.bsky.social
One upside of the week's news is that I am reading cool historical stuff on Rosalind Franklin and her work #philsci
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
iai.tv
Rcent announcements about the giant ring structure in a distant part of the universe has put into question fundamental assumptions of cosmology. | https://bit.ly/3JhbH59

But Dominik Schwarz argues such interpretations depend on a misunderstanding of the cosmological principle.

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Giant rings and the threat to cosmology | Dominik Schwarz
The recent announcement about the observation of a giant ring structure in a distant part of the universe, was widely reported as putting into question some fundamental assumptions of cosmology. But D...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · Aug 5
In July 1834, during his journey through the Northeast, Davy Crockett delivered a lengthy speech to the citizens of Cincinnati, openly reproaching President Jackson

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The Risk of Getting Too Big for Your Britches
So you don’t get too big for your britches
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November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
jalonso.bsky.social
The philosophical prospects of Large Language Models in the future of mathematics. ~ Fenner Stanley Tanswell, Ásgeir Berg. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27017/1/The%... #AI #Math
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
marshall0i.bsky.social
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johnhawks.net John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 2d
Oops…“Principal components (PC) axes
identified by a PCA are not necessarily the most informative biologically. Nevertheless, paleoanthropologists frequently interpret proximity in PC space as indicative of morphological and thus evolutionary affinity or relatedness”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins
Objectives Paleoanthropologists often utilize geometric morphometrics and principal components analysis (PCA) to interpret shape variation within the hominin fossil record. It is common practice to in...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
smithborrelli.bsky.social
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smithborrelli.bsky.social Davide Smith Borrelli @smithborrelli.bsky.social · 9d
The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth. The concept of change is often confused with that of evolution and is associated with an improvement ...

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The Old Woman of Syracuse and Islam
The assertion that change is not necessarily positive expresses a banal truth.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM